EcoFlora - Balduina atropurpurea

Balduina atropurpurea Harper
Family: Asteraceae Purple-Disk Honeycomb-Head University of Florida Herbarium	FNA Resources Brian R. Keener in Flora of North America (vol. 21) Perennials (fibrous rooted). Stems 1-4+, branched. Leaves glabrous or sparsely hairy adaxially, hairy abaxially; basal present or absent at flowering, linear-spatulate, 7-32 × 0.4-1 cm; proximal cauline linear-spatulate, 3.8-6.2 × 0.2-0.6 cm; mid and distal cauline similar, smaller, distalmost bractlike. Peduncles 5.5-20 cm, hairy. Heads 1-4. Involucres 15-25 mm diam. Phyllaries abaxially hairy; outer green to purple, ovate, 2.9-5.4 mm, apices acute; inner purple, lanceolate, 4.5-7.6 mm, apices acuminate. Receptacles: pit borders toothed to almost entire at angles. Ray florets 8-22, tubes 3-5 mm, laminae 16-27 × 3.5-5.5 mm. Disc florets 40-190; corollas purple (at least tips), 4-7 mm; style branches purple. Cypselae 1.3-2.2 mm; pap-pi of lanceolate, entire or apically lacerate scales 1.5-2.1 mm. 2n = 36. Flowering summer-fall. Pitcher plant bogs, wet pinelands and savannas; 0-100 m; Fla., Ga., N.C., S.C.
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